科学美国人60秒 SSS 在下午4:20之后交通死亡人数增加

Traffic Deaths Increase after 4:20 P.M. on 4/20 Tomorrow is April 20th4/20. It's sometimes called a High Holiday. Because for a lot of people, 4/20 is Marijuana Day. And for them it's kind of a tradition to start lighting up at 4:20 P.M. on 4/20. Whi

科学美国人60秒 SSS 混沌轨道可能导致灾难性的碰撞

Chaotic Orbits Could Cause Catastrophic Collision Isaac Newton said, I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. He meant that while people can be unpredictable, the planets are just the oppositethey glide through sp

科学美国人60秒 SSS 飞蛾帮你改进智能手机屏

Moths Inspire Better Smartphone Screens One of the things that makes your smartphone so smart is that if you pull it out in the sun, it senses thatand dials up the screen brightness to compensate. But it's not a perfect solution. 智能手机非常智能

科学美国人60秒 SSS 反进化说

Antievolution Legislation Shows Descent with Modification Creationism evolves and sometimes those new strategies succeed. 创世论得到发展，有时候，是新的策略取得的成就。 Nicholas Matzke, an evolutionary biologist currently on a

科学美国人60秒 SSS 计算机预测波普图成功

Computers Predict Pop Chart Success Many parents are no doubt familiar with their teenagers' musical tastes. Very few are probably inspired enough to launch an experiment into them. I listened to some of the music my oldest teenage daughter is listen

科学美国人60秒 SSS 医生小说对待生死问题

Doc's YA Novel Treats Life and Death Issues My book is called Water in May, its about a 15-year-old Dominican-American living in Washington Heights named Mari Pujols. And she wants more than anything else to have a babyand so shes very excited when s

科学美国人60秒 SSS 鳍足类动物不喜欢受到人类干扰

Pinnipeds Don't Appreciate Biped Disturbance 鳍足类动物不喜欢受到人类干扰 Cabo Polonio is a small seaside village on Uruguay's Atlantic coast. The permanent, year-round population is just 95 people living in around 50 homes. Another 350

科学美国人60秒 SSS 有些树因出汗而发热

Some Trees Beat Heat with Sweat Heres a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine: 这是该杂志2018年5月号的一篇短文，我们称之

科学美国人60秒 SSS 狩猎规则改变了熊妈妈的照顾事项

Hunting Rules Have Changed Mama Bear Care In North America, many critters commonly encountered todaylike wild turkeys or white-tailed deerwere brought back from near oblivion through conservation efforts led by hunters. Meanwhile, in Africa, some of

科学美国人60秒 SSS 计算机可与人类在人脸识别上相媲美

Computers Go Head-to-Head with Humans on Face Recognition Google and Facebook both do a nice job identifying your friends in photosa testament to how good machines have gotten at studying human faces. But how well would an algorithm fare, when pitted

科学美国人60秒 SSS 雷达扫描朝鲜核弹的详细信息

Radar Scans Detail North Korean Nukes North Korea has promised to close its underground nuclear test site at Mount Mantap later this month. Shortly thereafter, President Trump is set to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. 朝鲜已承诺

科学美国人60秒 SSS 影响地球的不止是太阳和月亮

Jupiter and Venus Squeeze Earth's Orbit The Sun exerts an enormous and obvious influence on the Earth, with its gravity and light. But other bodies also have a small say in our affairs. 太阳用其重力和光线对地球产生巨大而明显的影响

科学美国人60秒 SSS 火星着陆器将在行星内部运行

Mars Lander Will Peer Inside Planet Absolutely spectacular missionand its not a rover, its a lander. Its designed to land and deploy several instruments. 这是一个绝对壮观的使命......它不是漫游者，而是着陆器。旨在登陆和部署

科学美国人60秒 SSS 非洲：未来的全球科学枢纽

Africa: Future Worldwide Science Hub In a couple of decades from now Africa is going to be the powerhouse of human capital globallythe youngest continent in terms of young demography. 从现在开始的几十年内，非洲将成为全球人力资本的

科学美国人60秒 SSS 考古学家为尼安德特人航海做个案研究

Archaeologist Makes Case for Seafaring Neanderthals The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more like us they become. They made jewelry, from shells and eagle talons. They probably painted cave art. They may have buried their dead as well. 我们对尼

科学美国人60秒 SSS 坏音频会伤害科学家的可信度

Bad Audio Can Hurt a Scientist's Credibility In the era of fake news, it's worth remembering: the medium is the message. For example: psychological studies have shown that text that's hard to read is more likely to be deemed untrue. Now a study sugge